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THE LANCE Shrff Editors Tfan Tourtellotte Sports Editor • •- ^ « „ Cathy Lunsford KimPhillips CoUeen Reagan, Eric Lawson Camille E^ton TonyRidin^^ TenyWtabwne Orcalatioii Manager — • Lmisford Business Manager Collin ^gam Jfr. Fowler Dugger The editorial staff’s ihtat is to maintain professiwikl/stan- dards within the guidelina set forth by the Code of Respon sibility. agned editorials reflect Oieopinion of the author, while imsigned editorials reflect the majority opinion of the staff. Opinions expressed are not necessarily those of the College. Let ters to the Editor and articles welcomed, though subject to space limitations. Box 757 Advertising rates $1.00 per column inch Semester contracts-|.90 per column inch The Way We See It BY CATHY LUNSFORD What do students at another college campus think of St. An drews? In talking with students from Pfeiffer College it was found that St. Andrews does not have the “nice” reputation it was on ce thought to have. It seems these people feel St. Andrews students have had too much freedom and now are being slap ped on tiie hand by the administration in the form of tiie new rule changes. They think St. Andrews is a party school where rich kids go to kill time until they go into their fathers’ businesses. They feel the students who do come to St. Andrews to leam are in the minority. When asked specifically aliout the current rule changes the students response was a laugh. Mayb)e these students do not represent a majority, but cer tainly it can be argued that their opinion is important. It makes one wonder what other students in other areas think. Is St. An drews losing its reputation as being one of the top schools in the state in the eyes of other students? Are we losing prospective students because of our “inmiaturity”? Letters to the Editor This letter is somewhat Karl Marx or socialists in delayed because it took awhile general. Marx’s economic for me to run anross vour ar- discoveries are complex and tide concerning the NCLC very mportant. But far out- (National Caucus of Labor weighing them in importance Committee) candidate for Marx’s linking of mayor of Charlotte. I’m an socialism with working class alumni living in the state of ‘ democracy from below. Jta Rumely sounds to me like the confused anti-democratic Sword-Billed Barnes Continued Humminsbird any rules?” I think a strong argument can be made from that point of view - that we Washington. His presentation at the S.A. campus, mentioned several times in the Sept. 20 Lance, seemed to be less than war mly received. Of'this, I have no doubt. My contact with the NCLC in Seattle has been one of practical self defence. This group has consistently at tempted to disrupt peaceful meetings of other leftist groups. Furthermore, in some eastern cities (notably Philadelphia) their degenerated politics have led them to physically assault, with clut)s and lead pipes, memljers of the Communist Party youth group and the Sociali^ Workers Party. Lef tists have been hospitalized as a result of their thug-like tac tic of destroying all other lef tist leadership. As a result they are nationally discredited. What is unfortunate is that once again crimes are being committed in the name of socialism. As a revolutionary socialist myself, I would like to say that because Jim Rumley was evasive and demagogic, unable to defend Marxian economics, and unable to answer questions about his theories and programs, one should draw the conclusion that the problem belongs to Jim Rumley and the NCLC, not to elite he represents. People who take revolutionary socialism seriously should resent, and argue against, the distortions and stalinist tac tics of the NCLC. Todd Davis Jefferson Last Monday marked an important step in working class organizing. At a NU- WRO rally in Lumberton, workers from Converse Rub ber Co., Springs Mills, and TexFit»er joined with unem ployed and welfare to protest the W.I.N. n Slave Labor program of the government. W.I.N. II did not merely fall from the sky. As northern in dustry is faced with an early depression situation, they along with European and Japanese industry are moving into the south, especially eastern North Carolina, where workers are perdominately unorganized and paid lowest wages. W.I.N. II, which can force unem ployed people onto any job at lowest wages, becomes then a large scale government force to break all worker resistance (as was done at Coverse Rub- ter Co. last week) and per petuate capitalist ex ploitation. The class wide organizing of NU-WRO throughout the BY SKIP TAYLOR The food service ought to be conunended on their effort to continue serving quality food, both in the cafeteria and in the Snack bar. The snack bar in the Science building has been repained and improved. Riunor has it, it was done by Rooney Coff man and his famous band of elves. Plans are underway to make it place of interaction between students and professors, and amoungst students themselves. President Hart wiU speak at the Senate meeting tonight. We shoudl all go listen to him and see if he repeats his last years condemation of the Student’s social behavior. Last year President Hart ap peared to me to prove his knowledge in a facet of the great American tradition; that of passing the buck, mainly to this side of the cam pus. Perhaps this years ad dress will prove more op timistic in relation of the cam pus situation. Last Weekend’s showing of “On The Waterfront” ran into some technical fowl ups due to faulty projectors, but still proved to be a Classic film with Brando turning in one of the best performances this author has seen in a long while. This years movies are showing to be a refreshing change from the modern gunck perpetrated on us in to day’s theaters. Credit Tom Paterson, Ann Ward. Miller Excells as Author G. Taylor Miller, Jr., Pro fessor of Chemistry and Hu man Ecology at St. Andrews, recently published his second book, “Replenish the Earth— A Primer in Human Ecology.” The book was designed pri marily for use as a college textbook, and is already being used by over 60 colleges. “Replenish the Earth” deals with the population-con sumption problem and how to approach it. Dr. Miller uses the First and Second Laws of Thermodynamics as a basis on related themes such as ecosystems and biogeochemi- cycles, cybernetics, land use, world hunger, and resource depletion. Dr. Miller’s first book, “Energetics, Kinetics, and Life”, was selected as one of the best academic books pub lished in 1972 by “Choice”, a magazine which evaluates books for libraries. Dr. Miller used his leave of absence this spring to write a third manuscript, “Earth- manship—An Introduction to Human Ecology”. This book will come out in the summer of 1974. The Wadsworth Publishing Co. recently awarded Dr. Mil ler a grant to write a fresh man chemistry textbook. This book, which MillerwUl write during fall and winter terms, will stress environmental and ciMisumer affairs. nation is fighting back-over a hundred workers in Robeson county have already joined this fight; and by the time this letter is printed, thousan ds will have heard throughout Robeson. Friday we begin taking on capitalist food production and speculation by leafleting food stores in Robeson — catching people in their rage over food prices. should not have any rules. It is only by having rules that a person is able to find himself and grow. It is sort of like Boyle’s law tlie gas will expand to fill the volume. A person will continue to expand until he runs into some sort of barrier and then he will try to get around it. Rules and barriers in themselves are not inherently evil. Some can be and I think all of them ought to t>e contin ually re-examined. What I viewed on this campus, al least in that period from ’67- 71, there was no dynamic ten sion going on it was a matter of all tiie barriers falling and people expanding to fiU this vacuum and I don’t know that they got much of a growing ex perience out of it. I think a private institu tion such as St. Andrews has the right and the obli gation to establish rules different from public in stitution. Again I don’t think there is anything inherently wrong with this. I personally feel that a church related college which is committed to the teachings of Christ, teachings of the Bible, and which receives considerable support from the Presbyterian church is there responsibility this thought process in the ^rule or barriers that it sets up. Quite frankly, I feel that the Presbyterian church has relatively little influence in tenns of the operating con ditions of this college. As a Christian myself, I feel that it is part of the educational responsibility of the church related college to establish a climate to show what Christian living can be like. Specifically, to the rules here, the hour situation, ap pears to me that this is cer tainly not unreasnable. I’d like to see closed hours closed even longer. I realize that their are night people and day people but a person’s rights ought to be respected. In com parison with ofter institutions I do not think we are out of line in terms of closed hours. Lance: In regard to persons indicted on felonies.. ,?'^ Barnes: In regard to' the felon being asked to withdraw from the community, I share deep concern in wondering whether this is the way, in any community of Christian scholars ought to have their rules. On the surface this does seem to smack of the princi ple of bemg quilty guilty un til proven innocent. However, I think that this kind of situa tion isn’t without president. .. .But I do not think we should pattern ourselves after this. As to student personel ser vices asking someone to with drew upon finding a basis for a complaint against them. This may be the result of a situa tion such as a small number of students whose behavior ad- versly affects a large number of students and the current structure of authority has not been adequate enough to han dle the problem. Lance: Do You think the new rule changes will remedy the low student enrollment? Barnes: I would think that this would not delcariously affect the image of St. An drews relative to other institu tions because we are still go ing to be “more liberal”. But it could possibly have a good effect and will certainly not be derrogative to St. Andrews image. I think, however, that this is a positive thrust on the part of toe administration to try to bring in more students even though these rules may make little total difference. "h’sfinger UckiiigQod” College Gulf Free car wash with fill-up Mechanic on duty Across^from south exit of campus
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